This useful piece of information from Ed Bott about a laptop holder that looks like it does what I wish a laptop holder would do, would have been even more useful about two weeks ago. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, as I was given the totally indulgent gift of one of these!
Recent Bluessky Posts- Re-posting this here for good measure: bsky.app/profile/mfro... March 20, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Looks like we've found some immigration fraud. March 20, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- I propose the creation of a law journal reserved for articles written at least substantially by GenAI ("The Stochastic Law Journal"?). Query1: Have human or AI editors doing article selection and/or editing? Query2: When eds find hallucinations/other errors should they fix or just identify them? March 20, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- All other things equal (yes, they're not), you would expect more populous states to have more cases. Is there a map that normalizes for population? (Or for that matter that goes by country, since Miami/Tallahassee is a long way in germ miles.) March 20, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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England. “Extreme weather warnings” are issued here for 2 inches of snow. To make sure, we employ the failsafe of engineering incompetence: a little snow, rain or a few too many autumn leaves and the transport network shuts down thus ensuring that no one gets in much trouble. However, the same device is biting back increasingly hard as we concrete over flood plains and gardens and skimp on railway maintenance – flash floods and train crashes seem to be on the up.
Sorry! Of course the above comment belongs with the previous entry.